I don't know where it came from, but I suddenly decided that a
multimedia pc would be a great thing to give my dad for his birthday,
to go along with the big tv he's buying himself. And I'd find a use
for some of the old hardware laying around.

I've got four old MSI motherboards with AMD processors. The boards
are mini-ATX with on-board video (Savage 3, I think) but also an agp
slot. Two processors are Duron 1400+ and two are Sempron 2400 (I
think). I also have an ATI TV Wonder VE pci card. I've also go two
GeForce 2 cards, an MX and a TI, and either a GeForce 3 or 4 (one of
those died).

Can I go with this, or should I buy newer hardware for such a thing?

I'll see if the Mythbuntu wiki pages explain what it means, but what
are front ends and back ends?

04-10-2008, 09:53 PM

unix

Re: Should I use this old hardware for a Mythbuntu box?

Join the Mythtv mailing list [email]mythtv-users@mythtv.org[/email] and ask them with
a very specific list of hardware. They are helpful.

i

On 2008-04-10, Todd <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> I'm probably getting in way over my head.
>
> I don't know where it came from, but I suddenly decided that a
> multimedia pc would be a great thing to give my dad for his birthday,
> to go along with the big tv he's buying himself. And I'd find a use
> for some of the old hardware laying around.
>
> I've got four old MSI motherboards with AMD processors. The boards
> are mini-ATX with on-board video (Savage 3, I think) but also an agp
> slot. Two processors are Duron 1400+ and two are Sempron 2400 (I
> think). I also have an ATI TV Wonder VE pci card. I've also go two
> GeForce 2 cards, an MX and a TI, and either a GeForce 3 or 4 (one of
> those died).
>
> Can I go with this, or should I buy newer hardware for such a thing?
>
> I'll see if the Mythbuntu wiki pages explain what it means, but what
> are front ends and back ends?
>
>[/color]

04-11-2008, 05:49 AM

unix

Re: Should I use this old hardware for a Mythbuntu box?

On 2008-04-10, Todd <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I'll see if the Mythbuntu wiki pages explain what it means, but what
> are front ends and back ends?[/color]

A back end does the work. The front end is the GUI.

04-11-2008, 12:53 PM

unix

Re: Should I use this old hardware for a Mythbuntu box?

"Todd" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:662tv39q1dq5m9e88bgj5ckg3qgf63jngn@4ax.com...

[color=blue]
> I'll see if the Mythbuntu wiki pages explain what it means, but what
> are front ends and back ends?[/color]

Back-ends would be the software and hardware that interface to the TV
signal.
AIUI you choose a back-end for the type of hardware and signal you want to
record/etc.

The front-end is the software you use to view and/or control what happens.
These are more generic AIUI.

The front-end(s) and back-end(s) can be on different machines BTW.[color=blue]
>[/color]